Monday, October 13, 2008

Religulous

This is an entertaining movie, how can it not be with Bill Maher as our guide?, but it's also a stacked deck. It's not grossly manipulative the way a Michael Moore "documentary" can be -- Maher seems like a hell of a lot nicer guy, with fewer chips on his shoulder, than Moore -- but it's also not entirely fair to its subject matter. The failing here is to concentrate on religious extremists and not address the more challenging and interesting question of the role, if any, of faith and spiritual matters in a "rational" approach to human events. The result is that the movie is more entertaining than enlightening but well worth seeing.

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